Fastening supplying apparatus



Oct. 9, 1934. G GODDU 1,975,784

FASTENING SUPPLYING APPARATUS Filed Feb. 2, 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet l @cio 9, 1934. v G GQDDU 1,975,784

' FASTENING SUPPLYING APPARATUS Filed Feb. 2, 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 22 ,e0 7 46 JIITE Patented Oct. 9, 1934 STA TES

PATENT FFiQ 1,975,784 FASTENING SUPPLYING APPARATUS Application February 2, 1932, Serial No. 590,390

15 Claims.

This invention relates to a device for'supplying fastenings and is illustrated herein as embodied in a device arranged to supply fastenings one by one in such a manner that they can con- 5 veniently be picked up and transferred to the places where they are to be driven. I

Tacks and other fastenings are frequently driven by hand in the manufacture of shoes and it has been the practice of operators,-particularly side lasters, to employ the unsanitary practice of keeping their supply of tacks in their mouths as they have found that they can take the tacks from their mouths more readily than they can pick them from a receptacle.

It is an object of the present invention to improve upon the construction of devicesfor supplying fastenings.

In accordance with this object the invention, in one aspect, comprises a device for supplying fastenings having a-separator located in a raceway arranged to control the passage of. headed fastenings supported in the raceway and a member arranged to support and receive a separated fasteningfrom the raceway and arranged when displaced laterally to effect the operation of the separator to permit a fastening to pass the separator.

of the raceway to prevent loss of tacks.

The

tacks or other fastenings may be picked from the U-shaped member by hand or with the jaws of a pair of lasting pincers and thereby transferred to and lightly driven into the shoe upper and.

last which is being operated upon, after which the driving may be finished in the usual way.

With the above and other objects in viewthe invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a device for supplying fastenings arranged in accordance with the present invention;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of the lower end of the raceway with a tack in positi moved from the device;

on to be re- Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 showing parts of the device displaced laterally;

Fig. 4 is a view of the lower end of the raceway on a much enlarged scale; and

Fig. 5 is a view partly in section taken along the line V-V of Fig. 2.

The fastening supplying device of Fig. 1 is carried by a bracket 10 forming part of or carrying a hopper or tack pot 12 by which fastenings 14 may be supplied in any suitable manner to the upper end of a raceway 16. The upper end of the raceway may be provided, as disclosed in United States Letters Patent No. 1,761,031, granted June 3, 1930 on application of James F. Alkonis, with a pair of diverging plates directing the tacks to the raceway as they fall from plates carried by a rotating portion of thehopper 12. The raceway 16 is made up of a pair of plates 18 and 20 spaced apart to form a tack receiving slot 22 in which a line of headed fastenings is supported and provided with a suitable cover 24 secured to the plates 18, 20. The raceway is inclined, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, and is provided at its lower end with a substantially U-shaped member 26. The U-shaped member 26 is formed of spring steel or of other resilient material and is secured to the plate 20 by means of cap screws 28, as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3.

The member 26 is provided with a slot 30 which is normally in alinement with the slot '22 in the raceway whereby fastenings may pass readily from the raceway and into the slot 30. It is to be noted that the member 26 is arranged to be displaced laterally when a tack or other fastening is being removed from the closed end of the U-shaped member. A laterally projecting portion 32 forming part of the member 26 closes the end of the raceway when the U-shaped member 26 is moved from its normal position. The slot 30 in the member 26 is maintained of substantially the same width at all times by means of a collar 34 which is placed between the walls of the slot and held in place by a bolt 36 passing through the collar and through the walls of the slot. The bolt is maintained in this position by means of the nut 38 which, together with the collar and screw, clamps the walls of the slot 30 in position. The collar 34 will be selected to have a thickness in accordance with the width of the slot 22.

A separator finger 40 is secured to the extension 42 of the U-shaped member 26. This separator passes through a slot or recess formed in the extension 42 and is secured to the extension 42 by means of a nut and bolt 44. The separator 40 is normally maintained in the position shown in Fig. 2 but may be displaced in one direction by movement of the U-shaped member 26, thereby permitting the tacks in the raceway to move downwardly and when the member 26 is returned to its original position the point of the separator finger enters between the endmost tack in the raceway and the next tack. The endmost tack is then moved under the influence of gravity to a position at the closed end of the member 26.

The displacement or the member 26 (and consequently the separator finger 40) is limited by means of a cap screw 46 which forms an ad justa-ble stop against which the extension 42 of the member 26 contacts. The cap screw 46 is threaded into a U-shaped strap 48 which in turn is secured to the raceway by a screw 49 and which assists in holding the lower ends of the members l8 and 20 in proper relation to each other. By adjusting the cap screw 46 the movement or displacement of the member 26 may be varied in accordance with the width of slot 22, thereby insuring that the point of the separator finger 40 will, at all times, when displaced to its limit, be entirely removed from the slot 22, thus insuring that the fastenings will be free to move down the raceway and against the outturned portion 32 of the member 26. The point of the separator finger 40 is spaced from the end of the raceway a distance greater than the diameter of the shank of the fastening immediately below its head. This spacing of the point of the separator finger from the end of the raceway insures that only one tack or fastening will be separated from the line of fastenings in the raceway.

Although the parts of the device have been described in detail it is believed to be desirable to summarize briefly the operation of the device. With the parts of the device in the position shown in Fig. 2 the operator, either by the use of his fingers or by the use of the jaws of a pair of lasting pincers, grasps the fastening 14: in the member 26 and, in so doing, moves or displaces the member 26 into the position as shown in Fig. 3. It will be noted that the separator finger has been moved out of the slot and that the fastenings 14 have moved down to the end of the raceway. When the operator removes the fastening and releases the member 26 the member 26 will be returned to the position shown in Fig. 2 and the point of the separator finger will enter between the last two fastenings in the raceway and when the slot 22 and the slot 30 are in alinernent, as in Fig. 2, the endmost fastening will pass down to the closed end of the member 14.

Having thus escribed my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A device for supplying fastenings having, in combination, a raceway arranged to support a line of headed fastenings, a separator projecting into said raceway to control fastenings in the raceway and to the passage of fastenings one by one, and a member arranged to support a separated fastening and arranged, when displaced laterally, to effect the operation of the eparator to permit another fastening to pass the separator.

2. A device for supplying fastenings having, in combination, a slotted raceway for supporting a plurality of headed fastenings, a separator extending into said raceway arranged to control the fastenings in the raceway and to permit the passage of fastenings one by one, and a member adapted to support a separated fastening and arranged, when displaced laterally, to move the separator laterally to permit another fastening to pass the separator.

3. A device for supplying fastenings having, in combination, a raceway having a fastening receiving slot arranged to receive a line of headed fastenings, a separator projecting into said slot for controlling the fastenings in the raceway and for permitting the passage of fastenings one by one, and a. member connected to the separator and arranged to support a separated fastening, and when displaced laterally, to effect the operation of the separator to permit a fastening to pass the separator and, when said member is returned to its original position, to separate said fastening from the fastenings in the raceway.

4. A device for supplying fastenings having, in combination, a raceway, a separator arranged to permit the fastening s to pass one by one down the raceway, and a member for supporting fastenings located in alinement with the raceway and adapted, when displaced laterally, to close the end of the raceway and to effect the operation of the separator to permit a fastening to pass the separator.

5. A device for supplying fastenings having, in combination, a raceway having a fastening receiving slot, a separator arranged to control fastenings in the raceway and arranged to permit the passage of fastenings one by one, and a member located normally in alinement with the slot in the raceway and arranged to support a has tening, said member being arranged, when displaced laterally, to move the separator to permit another fastening to pass the separator.

6. A device for supplying fastenings having, in combination, a raceway having a fastening receiving slot, said raceway being adapted to support a line of headed fastenings, a separator located in said raceway to control the fastenings in the. raceway and to permit the passage of fastenings one by one, and a member adapted to receive the fastening from the raceway and, when displaced laterally, to close the end of the raceway and to effect movement of the separator to permit another fastening to pass the separator.

7. A device for supplying fastenings having, in

combination, a raceway having a fastening receiving slot, a separator located adjacent to the end of the raceway and arranged to permit the fastenings to pass one by one, and a member havinga fastening receiving slot located normally in alinement with the slot in the raceway, said member being arranged upon displacement laterally of the raceway to close the end of the slot in the raceway and to efiect operation of the separator to permit a fastening to pass the separator.

, 8. A device for supplying fastenings having, in combination, an inclined raceway having a fastening receiving slot, a separator spaced from the lower end of the raceway a distance greater than the diameter of the shank of the fastenings whereby a single fastening may move into the space between the separator and the end of the raceway, and a fastening receiving member having a slot therein normally disposed in alinement with the slot in the raceway, said member being formed of resilient material and adapted when displaced laterally to close the end of the raceway and to co-operate with the separator to permit another fastening to pass the separator.

9. A device for supplying fastenings having, in combination, an inclined raceway, a separator, a U-shaped member located adjacent to the lower end of the raceway and having a slot substantially in alinement with the raceway, said U-shaped member being connected to the separator in such a manner that displacement of the member permits a fastening to pass the separator.

10. In a device for supplying fastenings, an inclined raceway, a separator located adjacent to the lower end of the raceway and arranged to permit the fastenings to pass one by one, a U-shaped member located adjacent to the lower end of the raceway, said member having a slot located normally in alinement with the end of the raceway, and connections between the U-shaped member and the separator constructed and arranged, upon displacement of the U-shaped member, to permit the fastenings in the raceway to move down the raceway a distance equal to the thickness of a fastening.

11. A device for supplying fastenings having, in combination, a raceway having a fastening receiving slot, a separator located adjacent to the end of the raceway and arranged to permit the fastenings to pass one by one, and a member having a fastening slot normally in alinement with the slot in the raceway, said member having a substantially U-shaped portion arranged to receive and support a fastening, and a laterally extending portion located adjacent to the slot in the raceway whereby displacement of said member laterally of the raceway will cause said laterally extending member to close the end of the raceway.

12. In a device for supplying fastenings, a raceway having a fastening receiving slot therein, a separator located adjacent to the lower end of the raceway, a fastening receiving member having a slot therein located normally in alinement with the slot in the raceway, said member having a laterally extending portion constructed and arranged when the fastening receiving member is displaced to close the end of the slot in the raceway to prevent passage of fastenings from the raceway, and connections between the fastening receiving member and the separator adapted, upon displacement of the member to cause movement of the separator to permit the fastenings to move down the raceway and to close the end of the slot in the raceway.

13. In a device for supplying fastenings, an inclined raceway constructed and arranged to support a line of headed fastenings, a separator in said raceway spaced from the lower end of the raceway, a fastening receiving member located adjacent to the lower end of the raceway and arranged to receive and. support a fastening, said member being constructed and arranged to be displaced laterally to close the end of the raceway and, when the member is returned to normal position, to receive a fastening from the raceway and to support the fastening in a position from which it can conveniently be removed.

14. A device for supplying fastenings having, in combination, a raceway having a fastening receiving slot therein, a separator located adjacent to one end of the raceway, a fastening receiving member having a slot therein located normally in alinement with the slot in the raceway, said member having a portion constructed and arranged when the fastening receiving member is displaced to close the end of the slot in the raceway to prevent passage of fastenings from the raceway, and connections between said fastening receiving member and said separator adapted upon the removal of a fastening from said member to cause movement of the separator out of the path of movement of the fastenings in the raceway to permit the fastenings to move down the raceway when the fastening receiving member is displaced laterally.

15. In a device for supplying fastenings, a raceway, a separator spaced from the end of the raceway a distance greater than the diameter of the shank of the fastenings in the raceway whereby the fastenings may be moved toward the end of the raceway a distance not greater than the diameter of the head of the fastening, and a fastening receiving member located normally in alinement with the raceway and arranged to receive and support a fastening from said raceway, said member being constructed and arranged to be displaced laterally when a fastening is removed from said member to permit another fastening to be separated and to be delivered to said member when said member returns to its normal position.

GEORGE GODDU. 

